This leasson was created to help students accomplish two goals. First, to access the class website, join, and interact with...
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This leasson was created to help students accomplish two goals. First, to access the class website, join, and interact with their fellow classmates. Secondly, to access documents on the website for considering the question of what freedoms truly allow for democracy to flourish. Students will view The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and select five articles to consider if the United States supports them. After making their post students will then comment on a classmate's post to create an authentic online discussion that can be continued at the beginning of class and observe whether their classmate's argument was influential in changing their opinion since the original post.

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Jan 22, 2013
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Not a day now goes by without the appearance of new infographics, each of them meant to bring its viewers a fuller...
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Not a day now goes by without the appearance of new infographics, each of them meant to bring its viewers a fuller understanding of a subject or phenomenon (or convince them of an argument) at a glance. Modern technology has made it possible for us to see, as well as create, a wider variety of infographics filled with more data than ever, but their creation as an artistic and intellectual pursuit began longer ago than you might think. Here we have a handmade infographic by the 18th-century English polymath Joseph Priestley, notable not just for its earliness, but for the fact that it remains among the most impressive examples of the form.Accompanied by a description and subtitles, “A View of the Principal Revolutions of Empire that have taken place in the World” literally illustrates its creator’s view, unconventional at the time, that to truly understand history requires more than just examining the history of one country or one people. It requires examining the history of all the civilizations of Earth, which he divided into Scandinavia, Poland, Russia, Great Britain, Spain, France, Italy, “Turkey in Europe” and “Turkey in Asia,” Germany, Persia, India, China, Africa, and America.

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Joseph Priestley

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Free online academic and vocational self-paced courses. All courses include freely available online course eBooks/Textbooks...
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Free online academic and vocational self-paced courses. All courses include freely available online course eBooks/Textbooks and study/practice/test materials. Note: Online courses use OER/Creative Commons licensed materials (Check Creative Commons license used for course materials). Although Free-Ed Net does not currently offer OER Degrees, it supports learners with Open Educational Resources (OER) Pathways for learning before they may decide to pursue an OER Degree.

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David L. Heiserman (Editor)

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The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University have created "World History Sources" to assist...
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The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University have created "World History Sources" to assist teachers and students faced with the challenge of locating, analyzing, and learning from online primary sources and to further their understanding of the complex nature of world history, especially the issues of cultural contact and globalization.

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This course will explore the rise and decline of Greek and Roman civilizations between the first millennium BCE and the first...
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This course will explore the rise and decline of Greek and Roman civilizations between the first millennium BCE and the first millennium CE. Specifically, it will focus on the political, economic, and social factors that shaped the development and maturation of these two Mediterranean civilizations during the period of classical antiquity and examine how they influenced the social and cultural development of later generations of Europeans. By the end of the course, the student will understand how these ancient Mediterranean civilizations developed and recognize their lasting influences on European culture. This free course may be completed online at any time. See course site for detailed overview and learning outcomes. (History 301)

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The Saylor Foundation

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Jan 27, 2012
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״World politics and international relations from the dominance of empires and nation states at the turn of the century to the...
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״World politics and international relations from the dominance of empires and nation states at the turn of the century to the present. The influence of communism, fascism, and anti-imperialism, and the emergence of society as a factor in international relations. Questions of sovereignty versus the new world order.״

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Jun 13, 2012
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Jun 13, 2012

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This course introduces the history of the Middle East from the rise of Islam to the twenty-first century. The course will...
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This course introduces the history of the Middle East from the rise of Islam to the twenty-first century. The course will emphasize the encounters and exchanges between the Islamic world and the West. By the end of the course, the student will understand how Islam became a sophisticated and far-reaching civilization and how conflicts with the West shaped the development of the Middle East from the medieval period to the present day. This free course may be completed online at any time. See course site for detailed overview and learning outcomes. (History 351)

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The Saylor Foundation

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Jan 27, 2012
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This is a free course from the Saylor Foundation.'In the 1970s, the Chinese Communist leader Zhou Enlai was asked to assess...
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This is a free course from the Saylor Foundation.'In the 1970s, the Chinese Communist leader Zhou Enlai was asked to assess the outcomes of the French Revolution of 1789. He supposedly answered: “It is too soon to say.” Though this story has a somewhat apocryphal status, it captures a fundamental truth about the world in which we live: it is a world which has been shaped by revolutions, and their legacies are always difficult to evaluate.In this course, you will gain a better understanding of the modern world by studying some of the most important political revolutions that took place between the 17th century and today. You will seek to understand the causes of each revolution, analyze the ideologies that inspired the revolutionaries, examine revolutionary uses of violence, and consider how historical revolutions still shape contemporary politics. Close and critical readings of historical sources will be crucial in this process.The course begins with a theoretical analysis of revolutions and a careful examination of pre-revolutionary Europe and the Enlightenment. Subsequent units examine the English Revolution of the 17th century; the American and the French Revolutions, which are often described as the crucible of modernity; the Mexican Revolution, which changed the history of Latin America; the Russian and the Chinese Revolutions, which sought to create Marxist states; the Iranian Revolution, which created an Islamic Republic; and finally, the Eastern European revolutions of 1989, which brought about radical changes without recourse to violence.By the end of the course, you will be able to identify commonalities and differences among these revolutions and understand how—individually and collectively—they transformed the modern world.'

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The Saylor Foundation

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Feb 12, 2013
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